The Coast team reveal their first celebrity crushes

Publish Date
Tuesday, 18 July 2023, 1:05PM

Ah, the magic of teenage crushes – those unforgettable heart-fluttering moments when we adorned our bedroom walls with posters of our favourite celebrities.

We're taking a trip down memory lane as the Coast team shares their first celebrity crushes, and whose faces they had up on their walls — from Baywatch heartthrobs to music legends and TV sweethearts.

Toni Street

 My teenage crush was David Charvet from Baywatch!

David Charvet. Photo / via Pinterest

Jase Reeves

I had Christina Applegate on my wall (Kelly Bundy!) and also Alyssa Milano, Daisy Duke and Paula Abdul ... but I think the biggest crush I had was on Tiffani Amber Thiessen.

Tiffani Amber Thiessen. Photo via Pinterest

Sam Wallace

I fell in love watching Danielle Fishel as Topanga Lawrence in Boy Meets World and so I wrote to Woman's Weekly's David Hartnell to try to get him to pass my love on...

Topanga Lawrence in Boy Meets World 

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Lorna Riley

The first poster I had was John Travolta in Grease. As a teen, I had this Bowie poster on my wall, the concert was epic!

 

John Travolta / David Bowie

Jon Dunstan

My bedroom wall was covered in centrefolds... from NZ Hotrod magazine, plus Ferraris, Lambos and motorcycles. No posters of Farah, Raquel or Pam. However, I was particularly besotted with Carly Simon and it was worth the $7.95 cost of an album to be able to put those great album covers up amongst the hotrods on my wall.

In truth my absolute crush was Crystal Gayle, loved her voice and I thought she was about the most beautiful woman in the world, right up till the moment I met my wife. I had to dig around a little but I still have the tribute sketch from those days.

 

Crystal Gayle sketched by Jon Dunstan

JT

I had Guns N Roses posters, Bon Jovi, John Farnham (don't laugh), and many a crush. Almost all of the ladies in the Baywatch cast.

But to really class it up, instead of a poster, I had a calendar of my teenage crush... Elle MacPherson.

 

Elle Macpherson Calendar. Photo / thecollectorsmark.com.au

 Who did you have up on your walls?

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